What Was the Food of the 90s?

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i'm drawing a blank here!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

when did wraps come along and blow everyone's minds?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The nineties, I think.
The nineties is the decade of asking for lemon in your beverage.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

grunge

― amon (eman), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun dried tomatoes

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nutrigrain (and other breakfast cereal) bars, Red Bull drinks, McDonalds McFlurries.

So, junk food mostly.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Thai.

― didier bouyer (didier), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

chipotle everything

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ecstacy

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the decade sushi broke!

― Aaron A, Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ecstasy

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

naw sushi was the 80s

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

lemongrass

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I ever saw CAPPUCCINO & ESPRESSO HERE on a flashing "arrow" sign in the rural south, I realized that the nineties had changed America.

Coffee's not "food", I guess though. I can't think of anything that matches the fondue hit of the seventies.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Mango salsa.

Thai.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Mac.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

anything "diet" made with Nutrasweet.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the 2000's is the SPLENDECADE

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't "fusion" cooking big in the 90s?

― lemongrass ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Pizza with cheese in the crust.

(It looked so good on paper.)

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Sunday, 4 September 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Arch Deluxe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Deluxe

― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Foccacia bread
Sun dried tomatoes
Avocado
Lots of chicken
Microbrews
Pita bread
Nachos

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Calamari

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tiramisu
Grilled Tuna
Skinny Lattes

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

See, now this is one area where Australia comes out ahead instead of behind. Sun dried tomatoes, foccacias and avocado with chicken were late 80's foods over here. The 90s were all about the laksa.

― moley, Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

salsa!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfalfa Sprouts
Alfalfa and Radish Sprouts
Alfalfa and Onion Sprouts
etc

also Linda McCartney Sausages

― foodnut, Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Pop Tarts were 80's?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Pop tarts were the 70s

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the 90s were when I first became aware of Hot Pockets, even if the jingle was totally 70s.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i was going to say boboli but apparently it was out in 1988, maybe frozen yogurt.
pop tarts were introduced in 1964.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think we had pop tarts, in the UK, until the '90s

do we still have them?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope not.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfalfa and other sprouts were the food of the 70s.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

moley very otm! I was also going to say tiramisu, Beth beat me to it. In fact I remember my italian ex's mum sayin "this newfangled dessert they have over in italy, I saw it in a magazine and made some, try it!" in like, '91.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Asian fusion.

Also, jalapeno poppers.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep fried turkeys.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Surge

― internet comedy novice (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Deep fried turkeys.

So good.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Power soft drinks, like Red Bull and V!

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In terms of mass ubiquity, bagels were the early 90s, but over by 95, and insta-burrito/wraps were the late 90s. Anything low Carb was the early 00s.

In terms of like, actual cuisine, it was "pan-Asian."

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Power soft drinks, like Red Bull and V!

Also Powerbars and similar bars.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the answer is clearly salsa! i don't remember how i know this but the 90s saw salsa sales overtake ketchup.

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Very, very strong candidate, and one that has endured, but there weren't chains of salsa stores on every corner. There were two places in Denver to buy almost real bagels in Denver in 1990. By 1993, there were thousands of places to buy really bad, airy imitations of bagels. Brueggers (the best of the lot, IMHO), Chesapeake, Einsteins, a zillion "New York xxxxx Bagels" variants, and many I've forgotten. And then, like locusts, they were almost all gone. This mass extinction is the factor that makes bagels so a distinctly 90s to me. As the late 80s were to Frozen Yogurt, and the early 80's were to super-premium ice cream (Fruzen Glaadje, where have you gone?).

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

OH Fruzen Glaadje! How I miss it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

so, 70s = west coast, 80s=east coast, 90s=west coast.

00s=?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

deep-fried mars bar.

― haitch online poker (haitch), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

big beat souffle

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Smoothies were pretty 90s, right?

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 5 September 2005 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely asian fusion. so many variations on seared tuna with sides like wasabi mash or ginger-soy something-or-another.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 September 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

the 90s were kind of the decade of the upscaling of casual food generally, no?

this is otm. Comparing Disney World fast food menu restaurants in the eighties and today, every place offered fried horrors or shit like egg salad.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:11 (fourteen years ago)

My mom regularly bought hummus in the 1990s. I don't know if it had blown up yet.

Read this as "My mom regularly bought humans in the 1990s."

― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

I mean

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/7175927834/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/7175927834/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

gotta check out those opiates

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

EW EW EW EW EW EW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/6892951108/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

These have already been mentioned, but OTM : Smoothies, Starbucks coffee.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

Odwalla juices

― o. nate, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

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― deist mountain dew (reddening), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/6953572853/in/pool-97769629@N00/

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

raspberry vinaigrette

― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

oh, good one

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

I know someone said Snapple upthread but generally the replacing of iced tea for soft drinks.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

i remember when tom & tom personally came to install the nantucket nectar cooler in the corner coffee/cafe i worked at in philly. a new day had dawned. they were assholes.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

ha really? did the top of the cooler have one of those fun nantuckety facts stickered on it?

― collardio gelatinous, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

there once was a drink from nantucket..

― °™ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

whatever it is, it's flavored with truffle oil

― Josefa, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

haven't read this thread, did anyone say salsa?

― goole, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:31 (fourteen years ago)

here's one: multicolored martinis.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:32 (fourteen years ago)

That or zima.

― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:50 (fourteen years ago)

So are we ready to face down the Foods of the 00s, or is it Too Soon?

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 22:51 (fourteen years ago)

i thought truffle oil was a '00s thing but that may be M.I.A.'s truffle fries skewing the timeline in my memory

― a swarm of sentient bees (reddening), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PoZHG60DXA

― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

bottled water

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

craisins?

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:45 (fourteen years ago)

the food of the 10s is BACON right?

― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:52 (fourteen years ago)

bacon was food of the always. coconut water on the other hand...

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:10 (fourteen years ago)

Packaged coconut water products are pretty damned delicious and GREAT for a hangover. Unfortunately the convenience store near me has stopped carrying them. So maybe they were the food of the 2011s only.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:11 (fourteen years ago)

I was at cvs yesterday and saw coconut water, so I think it's still popular.

― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:14 (fourteen years ago)

I thought the bacon obsession started in the 00s

was the Cinnabon a 90s thing?

― jbn, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:16 (fourteen years ago)

i keep reading this thread title as "what was the fool of the 90s?"

so i will post this picture of fool.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wdgaJNRnYls/TfcXFFL_oGI/AAAAAAAABbk/SG58UaRWM44/s640/fool2.jpg

― ezra kleine nachtmusik (get bent), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:16 (fourteen years ago)

cinnabon is an I-90 thing

― collardio gelatinous, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

Salsa. Salsa really broke out in the 90s, and its never looked back...
Then again, it was also the first totally HFCS decade...

― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:49 (fourteen years ago)

But I guess that's more of a "food product" than a food.

― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 00:50 (fourteen years ago)

i thought truffle oil was a '00s thing but that may be M.I.A.'s truffle fries skewing the timeline in my memory

Yeah, I paused to reflect on this before posting... it's probably fair to say truffle oil is a turn-of-the-millennium thing more than just a '90s thing.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:11 (fourteen years ago)

food of the 10s:

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/01/mcdonalds-pink-slime.jpeg

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:25 (fourteen years ago)

if you'd told me that was strawberry froyo i'd believe you.

― ezra kleine nachtmusik (get bent), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn2/travel/wow_chips.jpg

WOW! I had no idea I'd have violent diarrhea within 10 minutes of eating these!

― queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:24 (fourteen years ago)

i don't know about the *entire* 90's but '92 was owned by blackened catfish.

― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:14 (fourteen years ago)

fine dining: big stacks of things (food network advises u to use a piece of pvc) + dabs of balsamic reduction + microgreens (?)

― dylannn, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:22 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't eat any fine dining in the 90s but don't they always describe "foam" and "mousse" as 90s on Top Chef

― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 11:43 (fourteen years ago)

haha, kind of hilarious if so, wasn't one of the contestants circa 2007 a huge liquid nitrogen foam guy, and it was always like "You have all these great, cutting-edge techniques but you also need to learn your fundamentals..."

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:08 (fourteen years ago)

I was trying to remember the details and tell sunny about the days when potato chip bags contained warnings about anal leakage, but couldn't finish because I was laughing so hard.

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

GISing for that actual warning was not smart at work.

― the same dope water as you (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:30 (fourteen years ago)

P&G is marketing its sucrose ester products under the brand "Sefose" for use as an industrial lubricant and paint additive.[23] Because olestra is made by chemically combining sugar and vegetable oil, it releases no toxic fumes and could potentially become a safe and environmentally friendly replacement for petrochemicals in these applications.[24] It is currently used as a base for deck stains and a lubricant for small power tools, and there are plans to use it on larger machinery.[25]

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:31 (fourteen years ago)

I anticipate we'll look back on nose-to-tail with a "ha ha what were we thinking? Ears are gross"

― nedless summer (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:33 (fourteen years ago)

I was trying to remember the details and tell sunny about the days when potato chip bags contained warnings about anal leakage, but couldn't finish because I was laughing so hard.

'This Product Contains Olestra. Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools. Olestra inhibits the absorption of some vitamins and other nutrients. Vitamins A, D, E, and K have been added.'

― °™ (Pillbox), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/11/20/56/2427779/3/628x471.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:46 (fourteen years ago)

i can't believe there are no krispy kremes in massachusetts. i just checked. if one opened in greenfield it would be the most successful store in town x 1000000.

― scott seward, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

im pretty sure there used to be KKs in MA and they were rejected & run out of business by hardcore dunkins partisans

― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

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